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The Northeast may be covered in snow and the end of February looks a bit bleak, so here’s to a few positive best practices from the past week. The Pope Speaks: Mark Pope has not had the easiest of runs leading the University of Kentucky men’s basketball program. Having known Mark from his playing days …
Some fun notes for the week… Marquette Brings The Ashes: It hasn’t been the best of years for Marquette basketball, but the Jesuit school found a unique way to make sure the religious mojo was brought to their Wednesday…Ash Wednesday…game at FiServ Forum against St. John’s. Rev. John D. Laurance, S.J., Marquette men’s basketball team …
We use the word iconic sometimes like we do the word hello. At every turn it’s too easy a word to throw around, when in reality must things we refer to as Iconic are not really worthy of that high level of praise or individuality. Icons should be rare air for all of us. Walking around …
Just some quick notes on the week…actually 10 days…that was as we work through MLK Weekend. My buddy Dave Siroty and I squeezed a heck of a lot of learnings into what was essentially a three mile radius of Upper Manhattan on Saturday, but before that, I should mention that our idea for our Saturday …
The information gleaned from newsletters, if you can curate them correctly, is invaluable. One of my favorites is Offball, which brings me info on sports like pop culture I don’t find elsewhere. This week was a little ditty about “Marty Supreme” and the misframed message of it’s what…it’s a story framed around table tennis, not …
W e are big fans of all cause marketing and social responsibility can do to make us better humans, so we asked my colleague Howard Brodwin at Sports and Social Change to give us a list of what’ was on his radar as we round out the year… Back (adverb) – in the opposite direction from which …
A few weeks ago, on our podcast with Dave Clawson we talked about the steep learning curve the universities are on in terms of communications and storytelling tied to athletes and even coaches. Clawson pointed out that the professionalization brought forth by NIL, along with the transient nature of athletes due to the transfer portal …
For those looking for some good reads to gift or read during travel and the holidays, see below. The list are books which were released first in 2025…I have had to actually have read them and felt like I walked away knowing more than when I opened them, and they are certainly not any kind …
The first few days of the week have brought with it a great number of learnings as we head down the stretch of 2025, and wrap another semester on campus at Columbia. To give our students some value add this fall, we were able to sync schedules with a longtime friend, Jack Armstrong, the longtime …
A few years ago we got a great response about our talk to former Navy SEALS and Special Forces leaders on how to build one’s voice and amplify what they have done as leaders into the workplace as they reach their next step in life away from the rigors, and the secrecy, of their heroic work for …
